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Economic Interests Trumped Revolutionary Idealism
- The white colonial elite coordinated with metropolitan merchants to protect the slave economy despite revolutionary ideals.
- Their shared priority was preserving the profitable plantation system above political sympathy for liberty.
Use Metropolitan Allies Strategically
- Free colored leaders leveraged metropolitan liberal allies like the Friends of the Blacks to press their claims.
- Use political coalitions and metropolitan forums to amplify colonial rights claims.
Julien Raimond's Long Campaign In France
- Julien Raimond left Saint-Domingue for France in 1784 to lobby against racial laws after witnessing worsening discrimination.
- He argued colored proprietors were essential to colonial productivity and appealed to Roman virtues and equal rule of law.